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UNCOVER

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

Example:

The newspaper uncovered the President's illegal dealings

Synonyms:

break; bring out; disclose; discover; divulge; expose; give away; let on; let out; reveal; uncover; unwrap

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "uncover" is one way to...):

tell (let something be known)

Cause:

break; get around; get out (be released or become known; of news)

Verb group:

break; get around; get out (be released or become known; of news)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "uncover"):

reveal (disclose directly or through prophets)

babble; babble out; blab; blab out; let the cat out of the bag; peach; sing; spill the beans; talk; tattle (divulge confidential information or secrets)

leak (tell anonymously)

confide (reveal in private; tell confidentially)

betray; bewray (reveal unintentionally)

spring (produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly)

come out; come out of the closet; out (to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality)

out (reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle)

blow (cause to be revealed and jeopardized)

muckrake (explore and expose misconduct and scandals concerning public figures)

blackwash (bring (information) out of concealment)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sense 2

Meaning:

Remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body

Example:

The man exposed himself in the subway

Synonyms:

expose; uncover

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "uncover"):

undo; unwrap (remove the outer cover or wrapping of)

undrape (strip something of drapery)

unclothe (take the covers off)

bare (lay bare)

unmask (take the mask off)

unveil (remove the veil from)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Antonym:

cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Reveal to view as by removing a cover

Example:

The curtain rose to disclose a stunning set

Synonyms:

disclose; expose; uncover

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "uncover" is one way to...):

bring out; reveal; unveil (make visible)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "uncover"):

face (turn so as to expose the face)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

This star system could be the archetype to explain a dazzling variety of glowing shapes uncovered by Hubble that are seen around dying stars, called planetary nebulae, researchers say.

(Hubble Detects Giant 'Cannonballs' Shooting from Star, NASA)

But while researchers were looking at ground-based data to confirm the existence of the hot Earth, they uncovered two additional worlds.

(Confirmation of Toasty TESS Planet Leads to Surprising Find of Promising World, NASA)

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered surprising new clues about a hefty, rapidly aging star whose behavior has never been seen before in our Milky Way galaxy.

(Hubble Observes One-of-a-Kind Star Nicknamed 'Nasty', NASA)

The remains of the two infants were found in a pit directly below a hearth where the 2010 remains were uncovered. (NSF)

(Archaeologists discover remains of Ice-Age infants in Alaska, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Two independent teams of astronomers have used ALMA to uncover convincing evidence that three young planets are in orbit around the infant star HD 163296.

(ALMA Discovers Trio of Infant Planets around Newborn Star, ESO)

The Herschel Space Observatory has uncovered a weird ring of dusty material while obtaining one of the sharpest scans to date of a huge cloud of gas and dust, called NGC 7538.

(Herschel sees budding stars and a giant, strange ring, NASA)

The pattern of these markers makes up the “tubulin code” and scientists have uncovered the mechanism behind one of the main writers of this code, tubulin tyrosine ligase-7 (TTLL7).

(Scientists unravel the mystery of the tubulin code, NIH)

Uncovering the nebula's secrets is no simple task.

(SOFIA Reveals How the Swan Nebula Hatched, NASA)

Their studies also uncovered a previously unrecognized vulnerability in the cancer cells that scientists may be able to exploit to develop new strategies against the cancer and related diseases.

(Scientists find promising drug combination against lethal childhood brain cancers, National Institutes of Health)

Hubble uncovered the latest storm in September 2018 in Neptune's northern hemisphere.

(Hubble Reveals Dynamic Atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune, NASA)